In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

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When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

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"This discovery shows that the body has a built-in backup plan. GLP-1 is simply a much more powerful signal for beta cells ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Behold, the human brain: Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and networks ...

Debunked busts six common myths about the human body and how it really works. Suspect in $20M fraud ring operating in 45 ...

Tossed the softest of softball questions, William Katzman, vice president for exhibits at the Great Lakes Science Center, can’t resist the joke. Why is the soon-to-open traveling exhibition “Super ...